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		<title>What we can learn from Kanye’s Twitter rant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just sharing a recent article I did for the Campaign for Black Male Achievement, part of the Open Society Foundations. Kanye West recently threw out some questions and challenges around design, and I analyze them.
http://blog.soros.org/2012/03/what-we-can-learn-from-kanyes-twitter-rant/
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		<title>The next chapter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GlimmerSite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m pleased to announce that a major international book publisher has purchased the worldwide rights to my next book, A More Beautiful Question: An Inquiry into the Value of Inquiry. The book was recently bought ...
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GlimmerGuy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently there was an inspiring front-page story in the NY Times about the hope that good design can bring to a blighted area like the South Bronx. In new architect critic Michael Kimmelman&#8217;s &#8220;In a ...
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		<title>Stamp of design approval</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GlimmerGuy</dc:creator>
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		<title>“We get 100 ideas a day”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GlimmerGuy</dc:creator>
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		<title>GLIMMER deemed “thoughtful, sparky and profound”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GlimmerGuy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s not every day I&#39;m called sparky, so I thought I&#39;d share the below brief review of GLIMMER, triggered by the publication of the paperback version of the book in Europe by Random House.
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		<dc:creator>GlimmerGuy</dc:creator>
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